Luminous used in a sentence

Luminous in a sentence as an adjective

Early on there's a room where everything is pitch black and it wants you to go back and find something "luminous.

And it doesn't just light up the room, you have to fling gobs of luminous paint all around to reveal platforms in an otherwise dark room.

These are the smallest of galaxies; in terms of luminous mass, they are only slightly more massive than globular clusters.

It will, however, affect the observed luminosity of the quasar and make us perceive it to be more luminous than it really is.

If the problem was merely with our theory of gravity one would expect all galaxies of a given luminous mass to have the same dark matter fraction.

The prediction would be that the dark matter clouds of two galaxies would more or less "go through each other" in a collision while the luminous stuff would "bump into each other".

The only luminous thing I had handy was my cell phone screen, and no, it doesn't help very much in complete darkness in a room scattered with debris and fallen-down furniture.

Making unvisited links brighter and more luminous than visited links will usually accomplish this goal.---Let's see:* Dull washed out colour for unvisited links - check!

* The "luminous efficiency" as commonly reported is just the lumen/W luminous efficacy divided by the peak value of 683lm/W.

"Minute" is not a unit of energy, luminous intensity, or any other measure that is actually useful in evaluating the practicality of this.

"The mind has acquired a confirmed and inveterate habit of inattention to [the luminous stimuli]; for they no sooner appear than quick as lightning the thing signified succeeds, and engrosses all our regard..." The only profession in life in which it is necessary, by training the eye and mind, to break this process apart - to separate seeing from recognising - Reid says, is painting.

Also theoretically impossible, as LEDs are already at 10-25% maximum luminous efficacy.

From Wikipedia — "Earthquake light is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon\n that reportedly appears in the sky at or near areas of\n tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions.

Quote Examples using Luminous

If only they'd put more power in the hands of the common man, they too could enjoy such luminous choices for statesmen as McCain vs. Obama, Bush II vs. Kerry, Bush II vs Gore, Dole vs. Clinton, Bush I vs. Clinton......we gotta keep saber rattling that our way is better than theirs.

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